Media

Grist Interview with Will Potter: Environmentalists Under Attack

Grist.org is featuring a discussion I had with Robert Jensen, who is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Citizens of the Empire (among many books). I think the interview turned out really well, and is particularly relevant in the wake of Tim DeChristopher’s sentencing. I hope you’ll check [...]

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What’s At Stake With the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act? (Radio Interview)

I recently interviewed with Dylan Powell about the AETA 4, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, Obama, mainstream media, and DC hardcore. I think it turned out to be one of the most interesting radio discussions I’ve been part of, because Dylan is so well-versed on these issues and we had a great conversation trying to pull [...]

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McDonald’s Going Green(washing) With New Logo

McDonald’s has rolled out a new logo in France, replacing the iconic red background of the golden arches with green. Here’s some info from ZLOK design blog, and here is where I saw the story originally (although I can barely stumble through the French!), at TerraEco.net. There has been so much fluff news lately about [...]

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“El Verde Es El Nuevo Rojo”: Green Scare Interview with Will Potter, English and Spanish

At a recent Green Scare benefit, I met two amazing activists from Colombia who are working with a few independent media projects, including Radio Libre. They’re raising awareness of the Green Scare, and how activists in the U.S. are being labeled “eco-terrorists,” because they feel many of these scare-mongering tactics can be exported to other [...]

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“Eco-terrorism” Romance Novel

Oh good grief, I knew I spoke too soon when I posted about the new “comedy” based loosely on non-violent activists being labeled “terrorists.” Looks like the “eco-terrorism” buzz has also been milked for a romance novel. Ugh. The blurb for Leave No Trace by Lynn Romaine: For undercover DNR agent Nick Seek, what begins [...]

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SHAC Terrorism Case… As a Comedy?

So the SHAC 7 are in prison, as “terrorists,” for running a controversial animal rights website. Defense attorneys are appealing, and it could be a landmark First Amendment case. But apparently civil liberties are SO not entertaining… instead, according to the Hollywood Reporter, it’s fodder for a comedy: Lionsgate has acquired worldwide rights to “Stop [...]

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The War That Never Ends…

Apologies to everyone for the lack of posts lately. I had to back away from the site because I’m trying to get another project rolling–cross your fingers on that one, and hopefully I’ll have exciting news to announce in coming months. Fortunately for GreenIsTheNewRed.com, though, the “War on Terrorism” is a bit like a case [...]

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Seattle Times Article Raising Questions About “ELF” Arsons, Potter Quoted

Yesterday’s Seattle Times article by Jonathan Martin and Mike Carter raises some good points about the recent arsons outside of Seattle, arsons that the FBI and industry groups like the National Association of Home Builders have rushed to label as not only an Earth Liberation Front action, but “eco-terrorism.” Some highlights: “This could be insurance [...]

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“Green Scare” Program in Worcester

Unfortunately the little mainstream media coverage of so-called “eco-terrorism” has been the unquestioning use of the T-word to describe sabotage and property crimes. (The recent cases in Seattle and now in Michigan are great examples of the press getting so wrapped up in the sexiness of that story that civil liberties implications are nowhere to [...]

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Press, Feds Labeled Michigan State University Arson “Terrorism” in 2000

I’ve noticed that there’s a tendency, when people speak critically about the use of “terrorism” legislation and rhetoric to chill dissent, to act as if this is something that rose from the ashes of 9/11. As if the political opportunism we’re seeing now can only be explained as some kind of outgrowth of that tragedy. [...]

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